Incest
Rape
Little boys flung off the tops of towers
More rape
More incest
More brutal murder of innocents
Even more incest

He watched from the trees as the fat boy wrestled with a longbow as tall as he was, his red moon face screwed up with concentration. Three arrows stood in the ground before him. Tarly nocked and drew, held the draw a long moment as he tried to aim, and let fly. The shaft vanished into the greenery. Chett laughed loudly, a snort of sweet disgust. "We'll never find that one, and I'll be blamed," announced Edd Tollett, the dour grey-haired squire everyone called Dolorous Edd. "Nothing ever goes missing that they don't look at me, ever since that time I lost my horse. As if that could be helped. He was white and it was snowing, what did they expect?"

"The wind took that one," said Grenn, another friend of Lord Snow's. "Try to hold the bow steady, Sam."

"It's heavy," the fat boy complained, but he pulled the second arrow all the same. This one went high, sailing through the branches ten feet above the target.

"I believe you knocked a leaf off that tree," said Dolorous Edd. "Fall is falling fast enough, there's no need to help it." He sighed. "And we all know what follows fall. Gods, but I am cold. Shoot the last arrow, Samwell, I believe my tongue is freezing to the roof of my mouth."

Ser Piggy lowered the bow, and Chett thought he was going to start bawling. "It's too hard."

"Notch, draw, and loose," said Grenn. "Go on."

Dutifully, the fat boy plucked his final arrow from the earth, notched it to his longbow, drew, and released. He did it quickly, without squinting along the shaft painstakingly as he had the first two times. The arrow struck the charcoal outline low in the chest and hung quivering. "I hit him." Ser Piggy sounded shocked. "Grenn, did you see? Edd, look, I hit him!"

"Put it between his ribs, I'd say," said Grenn.'

"Did I kill him?" the fat boy wanted to know.

Tollett shrugged. "Might have punctured a lung, if he had a lung. Most trees don't, as a rule." He took the bow from Sam's hand. 'I've seen worse shots, though. Aye, and made a few."

Ser Piggy was beaming. To look at him you'd think he'd actually done something. But when he saw Chett and the dogs, his smile curled up and died squeaking.

"You hit a tree," Chett said. "Let's see how you shoot when it's Mance Rayder's lads. They won't stand there with their arms out and their leaves rustling, oh no. They'll come right at you, screaming in your face, and I bet you'll piss those breeches. One o' them will plant his axe right between those little pig eyes. The last thing you'll hear will be the thunk it makes when it bites into your skull."

The fat boy was shaking. Dolorous Edd put a hand on his shoulder. "Brother," he said solemnly, "just because it happened that way for you doesn't mean Samwell will suffer the same."

"What are you talking about, Tollett?"

"The axe that split your skull. Is it true that half your wits leaked out on the ground and your dogs ate them?"

Damm, the preview was violent. The beginning shows a group of riders called the Night Watch going into the forest behind a mountain pass called the Iron Wall to find some people only to find them cut into pieces by some creepy blue-eye race called "The White Walkers" (which TVtropes says were actually called "The Others" in the novels). The only survivor of the Night Watch is caught for desertion and is executed by Eddard Stark, the Lord of Winterfell, whose lands border near the Iron Wall. Witnessing the execution is Stark's men and his sons including ten year old Bran which Ed tells him why it is his duty to do the execution.

With what i saw, the series is going to be good and this show is no "Good vs Evil" kids story, it's violent, a very violent adult fantasy story. Heck one scene shows a dead kid pinned onto a tree by the White Walkers! Can't wait to watch the full 1st episode.

PS:If you live in Asia, good news. HBO Asia will airing Game of Thrones but they haven't announced the air date.

One major-minor complaints: the Dire Wolves were hardly featured. These are pivotal characters (well, extensions of the main characters, but still pivotal to the various character's definition and development), and we didn't even learn their names let alone see the children's reaction to the wolves.

Do you think it was necessary to see the reactions of the children? We'll probably learn the names of the wolves later too. I haven't read the book yet, but it is so very interesting that you say they are pivotal to the main characters. That is neat.

Yeah, since this the first HBO series i ever seen uncensored, i wasn't prepared for the nudity, the sex, f-words, swear words and incest!

So here's my short synopsis of this episode:
Ned Stark is Lord of Winterfell, who's lands border the Ironwall, a giant mountain area which guards the Seven Kingdoms against a group of people from the north called the "White Walkers". After executing a deserter from the Nightwatch, the rangers who guard the Ironwall(the deserter witness his fellow rangers killed by the White Walkers, freak out and ran), Ned, his sons and retainers find a dead Dire Wolf and it's cubs. At first Ned wants put down the cubs but John Snow, Ned's illegitimate son, convinces his father to spare them since Dire Wolves are the Stark's family emblem, much to the relief of Bran Stark, his younger brother. All six wolf cubs are given to each of Ned's children(including John) as pets. Meanwhile in King's Landing, the capital of the Seven Kingdoms, Jon Arryn, The Hand of the King(which makes him the 2nd most powerful person in kingdom) has died. Watching his funeral is Cersei Baratheon, the King's wife and her twin brother, Jaime Lannister, Captain of the Kingsguard, who are discussing the secret that Jon may or may not knew will be going to his grave. Later, Robert Baratheon, the King of the Seven Kingdoms visits Winterfell and asks Ned to be his new Hand of the King. Also visiting Winterfell is Jaime, his younger brother Tyrion Lannister, who is a dwarf(he's first introduced being serve by a prostitute and later 3 more thanks to Jaime!) Robert and Cersei children including their son and heir Prince Joffrey(who kinda reminds me of Draco Malfoy), who takes an interest with Ned's eldest daughter, Sansa. John has a talk with his uncle Benjen Stark, the leader of the Nigthwatch, as he wants to join him at the Ironwall and later Tyrion, who the latter gives John some advice on how he shouldn't let his status as Ned's bastard get to him but use it as an armor so no one can use it to hurt him. As Ned thinks about Robert's proposal inclduing arranging a marriage between their children, Ned's wife Catelyn receives a secret message from her sister and Jon's window, Lysa who has ran from the capital as she believes her husband was murdered by the Lannisters, who are planning to overthrow Robert. Meanwhile in Pentos, a country east from the Seven Kingdoms, Viserys Targaryen, the exiled prince who's father was the previous King to rule the 7 Kingdoms before the Baratheons overthrow him, wants to regain his rightful throne. In order to do that, he and an ally of his Illyrio, a rich merchant arrange a marriage between Khal Drogo, warlord of the Dothraki, a powerful tribe of barbarian horsemen and Viserys's younger sister, Daenerys. (Truth be told, Viserys relationship with his sister creeps me out since i remember reading somewhere that the Targaryens practice incest! And not making things any better is the fact on how he looks at Daenerys naked and making a comment that he is willing to let his sister get raped by Khal's men if it gets him Khal's army to invade the 7 Kingdoms!) The wedding party was.....wild. The violence and the rest i expected but the "sex dancing" i did not! One thing that caught my eye was Illyrio wedding gift for Daenerys; 3 Dragon Eggs. The eggs might play an important in the story but for now they look useless. (I feel sorry for Daenerys since she's nothing more but a tool for her brother's plans. And i can't wait for the subtitles for the Dothraki language) The episode ends with Ned and Robert going hunting and Bran climbing a tower and finding Jaime having sex with......Cersei! (Oh come on! More incest!? First the Targaryens and now the Lannister too?!) Bran gets caught by Jaime and pushes him off the tower!

Well that was a cliffhanger. Except for the nudity, the sex, the f-bombs and incest, that as a good episode. Well, i can't wait for next episode.